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		jrockway on April 2, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Logs Are Streams, Not Files Uh, and UNIX syslog since like 1970?

stavros on April 2, 2011 | [–]

Syslog is more about human-readable logging, but you're right, it's more relevant in this context. The graphite approach was about fast aggregation of samples (app response times, load, etc) and the graphing of these.

wiredfool on April 2, 2011 | [–]

Yeah, but no one did a shiny post about syslog a couple of days ago.

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